St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-26

f!yNNvs EN Hmay be the opinion
* Y of him to whom
S><& everything has
come smooth. Some
men make opportunities, others take
advantage of those offered. One
man will struggle hard with lifelong
poverty and after all do nothing but
grade the broad avenue along which his
neighbor will roll to competency.
There is one time in the life of every
man when he may make fortune.
Shakespeare expresses this when he
speaks of 1.-The tide in the affairs of men,
which. taken at the flood, leads on to
fortune" Lord Lytton very prettily
expresses it in Lucille, but takes pes
simiStic view of it, after all, when he
says:
To all of Us, ere we go to the grave
Fate relenting, accord the good gift we could
But as by some divine imperfection in fate,
The good gift, when it comes, comes mo-
ment TOO late.
The Futures great veil our breath ftfully
flaps.
But behind it broods eyer the mighty per-
haps.
The sweet singer has never been in
Minneapolis or he would have tuned his
Tyre to a more hopeful pitch. He would
never have looked over the baronial
homes of some of the flour and real
estate princes of the Sawdust City. and
then gone to the gloom of his dimly
lighted library to write:
Who can sit down and say, what 1 viii be l
will?
Who stand up and affirm, what was am
still?
He would rather compose a sonnet to
the divine agency, luck. or invent a
rhyme for silver as applied to the spoon
of that metal. when found in the tooth
less mouth of a newborn Minneapolis
infant. For instance: There was a
young man in Minneapolis who had
worked hard, saved a little and gone to
Saratoga on vacation. While enjoying
cigar on the yeranda of the Grand
Union, a stranger approached and said ::
''Are you Mr.. -, of Minneapolis?''
81 am. at your service"
"You have piece of ground in that
city maming the location) and l would
like to buy it,
''What'Il you give?'
'Twenty-four thousand dollars.''
Hin. Make that in writing will you?
am going home tonight, and will let
you know by telegraph in four days.
The offer was made in writing The
young man came home. hunted up the
piece of ground, and found it could be
bought for $4,000. A friend advanced
$1,000 of the purchase money, and four
days later it was sold to Mr.. B.. of Bos-
ton, for S24,000-a clear profit of S11O0O
to the enterprisihg young clerk on a
vacation. lie is now worth ten times
the amount. That was luck. and that
was his start in life. Take another
case.
Eight years ago young man drifted
into Minneapolis, about penniless, and
secured employment in a mill. He
worked and saved for two months, when
he was ordered on night turn. This
did not suit him. and he refused-and
was discharged. He had SIS in his in
side pocket and opened a real estate
Office, lived frugally for month, and
is worth half million, clear and cold,
and is prospectively much richer. Was
that luck? That man was Sanford S.
Small
Fifteen years ago tall. slender young
man with pleasant smiling face was
struggling for living as a LAWYER
One day he went to DR.. Ames and asked
for enough bills to collect to buy his din
ner with the commission. He went into
real estate and developed considerable
shrewdness and foresight. Men en-.
trusted him with money to invest for
them and he got share of the proceeds.
erty. Still, ten years ago, when he or
dered Sc pair Of pantaloons of Frank
Koran, he could not raise the money on
Saturday and had to go to church in his
old ones. Finally his property advanced
and he stepped into an income. He
secured the street car franchises and
stepped into millions. Was it luck that
pursued Tom Lowry?
Some years ago when the playful
woodchuck disported himself and the
prairie chicken whirred over the site of
the Grand opera house young man sat
crosslegged on table and earned a
meagre living as tailor. But fate had
reserved for him brighter future.
He bought up few government
bounty grants and went into the pine
land business, taking the choice Mime,
apoliS property at the same time. Some
people say T. B. Walker is to-day worth
from S10.000,000 to S15,0OO,0OO. However,
he got there, and his start in life was
not high one.
Il would not refuse an honest, deserv-
ing man the loan of money, so long as |
had it." remarked E. j. Phelps the
other day, when applied to for the loan
of SIS for a few days. Mr.. Phelps re-
membered his own early career, when
he was given his start in life by the
timely loan of a $40 bill. If he is now
rich and prosperous, he carved out his
own prosperity.
l.. NJ. Stewart was once cobbler, but
as he drew his waXed ends he thought
out and planned and saved. Look at
him to-day.
Peter Wolford. the reputed owner of
two millions, once earned2 cents dozen
shocking oysters in Baltimore.
Gen. o. 3. Nettleton peddled bibles
in Philadelphia before the war, and
after his fighting days were over came
to Minneapolis and laid the foundation
of his fortune.
S. C. Gale was once a tanner, so the
STORY goes, but is now the rich gentle
naan, student and litterateur.
In his boyhood days Matt Walsh
sailed the briny ocean, but no one ever
heard him say ''shiver my timbers."
N. j. Blethen used to WELD the birch
in ~ New England day school, but his
first political ambitions being rudely
withered, he transplanted them to the
hopeful soil of Missouri and thence to
Minnesota. -.
John Blaisdell, before he pre-empted
his present millions in Eighth ward
land, was restaurant waiter.
The great Orrin V TOuSley was once